Research Themes

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

--grounding of phonological learning in a mathematical implementation of evolutionary information theory.

--phonological cognition.

--implications of selective aphasias, first and second language acquisition phenomena, processing and production effects, and language games for theories of phonological and morphological architecture.

--interactions between synesthesia and phonetics/phonology.

--cleft palate speech in late bilinguals

--bilingual acquisition

--extraction of predictive group characteristics from large linguistic corpora using statistical techniques developed in chemometrics to identify gender and other biological characteristics from large databases of sweat samples.